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Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies
This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and …
Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum in the Battle Against Poverty
This book addresses a topic that is currently high on the agenda in many fora: how to specify and secure a social minimum. The term ‘social minimum’ has different meanings, …
Health and Human Rights
This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights. In so doing, it charts the history of the linkage between health and human rights. It also pinpoints …
The Tension Between Group Rights and Human Rights
The discussion of group rights, while always a part of the human rights discourse, has been gaining importance in the past decade. This discussion, which remains fundamental to a …
Gender Equality in Law
"Since the fall of the Berlin wall there has been a surprising dearth of high quality of scholarship on legal culture in the communist successor states of East Central Europe. In …
Human Rights Brought Home
What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have? This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal …
Investment and Human Rights in Armed Conflict
This book analyses the way in which international human rights law (IHRL) and international investment law (IIL) are deployed – or fail to be deployed – in conflict countries …
Rights in Divided Societies
This collection examines the role and value of rights in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective. Societies …
Making Rights Real
Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has …
Gender, Culture and Human Rights
In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights. Rejecting the troubled legacies of Enlightenment …
Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation
Since the mid-1980s,beginning with the unsuccessful Union Carbide litigation in the USA, litigants have been exploring ways of holding multinational corporations [MNCs] liable for …
Governing (Through) Rights
Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse …